How to replace selected text?

[rogerl33]

If I do a SelectRange, and then a Paste, RichTextKit only does an insertion not a replacement. Is there some other way to achieve what I want?
Thanks!

[danielsaidi]

This must be an oversight from my side. Pasting should behave as you describe.

[chnbr]

Im having problems with the following line:

context.handle(.replaceText(in: myRange, with: attrText))

It seems that attrText is not replacing myRange, but is inserted at .location of myRange.

Can you confirm this (and if so correct it) ?

Thanks

[danielsaidi]

Yeah, replace should take the length of the provided range. I will check.

[chnbr]

I have debugged into and it seems that the range argument is not passed correctly. I pass a non-null range, but in RichTextCoordinator+Actions.swift I am seeing NSRange(0,0). That would explain the behaviour. However, I was not able to find where the range gets lost...

[chnbr]

My update is definitely running on @mainactor... I do see immediate updates, but they replace the 0,0 range all the time.
Everything is "replaced" at location 0.

[chnbr]

I am very sorry. My fault. I passed an old value of my range. Everything is OK !!!

So, sorry ! Apologies !

[danielsaidi]

Haha ok, so can we close this?

[chnbr]

Yes 🙏